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ArticleMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2015

Protective Effects of Korean Red Ginseng against Alcohol-Induced Fatty Liver in Rats.

Hyo Jin Lee, Hyang Mok Ok, Oran Kwon

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Article in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 26% of its field
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Hyo Jin LeeDepartment of Nutritional Science and Food Management, Ewha Women's University, 52 Ewhayeodae-gil, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 120-750, Korea. lhj264@hanmail.net.
Hyang Mok OkDepartment of Nutritional Science and Food Management, Ewha Women's University, 52 Ewhayeodae-gil, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 120-750, Korea. holytreeok@gmail.com.
Oran KwonDepartment of Nutritional Science and Food Management, Ewha Women's University, 52 Ewhayeodae-gil, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 120-750, Korea. orank@ewha.ac.kr.
Ewha Womans University · KR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The present study tested the hypothesis that Korean red ginseng (KRG) provides a protective effect against alcoholic fatty liver. Male Sprague-Dawley rats were divided into four groups and fed a modified Lieber-DeCarli diet containing 5% (w/v) alcohol or an isocaloric amount of dextrin-maltose for the controls for 6 weeks: normal control (CON), alcohol control (ET), and ET treated with 125 or 250 mg/kg body weight/day of KRG (RGL or RGH, respectively). Compared with the CON group, the ET group exhibited a significant increase in triglycerides, total cholesterol and the presence of lipid droplets in the liver, and a decrease in fat mass, which were all attenuated by KRG supplementation in adose-dependent manner. The mitigation was accompanied by AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) signaling pathways in the liver and adipose tissue. In addition, suppression in the alcohol-induced changes of adipose adipokine mRNA expression was also observed in KRG supplementation group. These findings suggest that KRG may have the potential to ameliorate alcoholic fatty liver by suppressing inappropriate lysis of adipose tissue and preventing unnecessary de novo lipogenesis in the liver, which are mediated by AMPK signaling pathways. A mechanism for an interplay between the two organs is still needed to be examined with further assays.

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Adipose TissueAlcoholsAMP-Activated Protein KinasesAnimalsDietary SupplementsFatty Liver, AlcoholicGene ExpressionHumansLipogenesisLiverMaleObesityPanaxPlant ExtractsRatsSignal TransductionAlcoholsAMP-Activated Protein KinasesPlant Extractsadipose tissuealcoholic fatty liverAMP-activated protein kinaseKorean red ginseng

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PMID26111184
PMCPMC6272318
OpenAlexW1513355356

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